23-05-2025
Trump adds new flair to the walls of the West Wing with more untraditional pieces
President Donald Trump has added another piece of untraditional art to the walls of the White House.
Hanging in the West Wing is an illustration of Trump alongside two other prominent Republicans, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
A picture of the new addition was posted to X on Thursday by The New York Times' Shawn McCreesh.
The artwork was created by illustrator and painter Dick Bobnick and titled 'Great American Patriots.'
Bobnick's website says the original painting is still available for sale.
Reproductions of the artwork are for sale for as low as $27 and the image is available on coffee cups, beach towels, pillows, tote bags and phone cases on the artist's site.
The painting is just the most recent move by Trump and his aides to give the White House a more Trumpian and MAGA aesthetic.
Last month, the White House moved President Barack Obama's official portrait across the residence's entryway and installed an image of Trump in his 'fight, fight, fight!' pose, after nearly being assassinated at the July 13 Butler, Pennsylvania campaign rally.
That artwork is a painted version of a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci, snapped moments after an assassin's bullet grazed Trump's ear.
Ironically the photographer who snapped the photo is one of the AP journalists who've been barred with taking a daily place in the White House 'pool' - the smaller group of journalists who follow the president daily and are allowed into more confined spaces, including Air Force One and the Oval Office.
In February the White House said it was banishing the AP from the pool over the wire service's refusal to use 'Gulf of America' instead of Gulf of Mexico in its influential style guide.
Vucci was one of the AP's journalists who testified in an ongoing legal case.
The Trump White House also trolled critics by adding a piece of Star-Spangled Trump art - an American flag over the president's face - in a locale usually reserved for the first ladies.
In the booksellers' entryway of the East Wing, the White House hung the Trump artwork up between portraits of first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton.
The new arrival was discovered during the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll last month, with visitors posting it on social media.
A White House staffer called the new painting 'another iconic portrait' and told that President 'Trump was re-elected after two failed impeachment hoaxes, dozens of criminal charges, and multiple assassination attempts. He can hang art wherever he wants!'
Trump also ordered his mugshot hung up outside the Oval Office.
Inside the Oval Office, the president has hung a variety of portraits and added gold all over.
Most recently the decorative ceiling medallion in the Oval Office was painted with gold.
For decades as a developer the Trump aesthetic included a lot of gold and marble.
During last week's trip the Middle East, where the president was feted in grand palaces and government buildings in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, he repeatedly complimented the glitzy style.
